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we want to -- poison yourself. that's a republican plan. >> and the air and the ground. and you are about out of time here. >> the greatest unemployment -- >> the greatest unemployment program was under bill clinton. >> greta is next. see you home night. >> tonight, well it turns out the supreme court ruling is only the beginning. here comes the finger. watch out president obama, arizona gov. jan brewer could be pointing at you again. so here's what's going on. first, the high court strikes down parts of arizona's immigration law but upholds the most controversial part. governor brewer claims victory. but the obama administration sneaks up behind her and crashes her party. the white house suddenly actioning a deal with arizona allowing local police to enforce immigration rules. and governor brewer is furious and strikes bat calling it a new low, even for this administration. and she's not throwing in the towel. meanwhile the obama administration is not through with arizona for the day. late tonight they announce a telephone hot line for civil
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rights complaints in arizona. and now it's governor brewer' turn. she's here on the record to tell you why it son over yet. and john mccain is here to go on the record about immigration in his state. and the next big ruling, healthcare. that happens thursday. all that coming up. and for starters, the facts. you need to know exactly what the supreme court decided. and you will because fox news supreme court correspondent shannon breen is here and no one knows it better than shannon. all right. you were at the supreme court today. tell me what the decision means. >> well, basically overall they are striking down three of the provisions in play. and those three provision that is federal law perempts what the state was trying to do. they agreed on upholding one portion which this is the part that allows the police if they stop someone for a local or state infraction and have reasonable suspicion to believe they are here illegally to inquire into their status.
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but if they have been arrested you check the status before you let them go. >> reasonable suspicion. what area is this? now if someone has an accent because there are a lot of people here legally with accents. and people look perhaps of a different ethnic background, is that reasonable suspicion? there will be problems with that one. >> there will be. and a number of course groups said they already plan to sue. whatever happened with the case today, whatever left standing they had other lawsuits in the wings. even governor brewer acknowledges that's going to a eats a very difficult thing to do. they say place will be trained and retrained again to make sure they don't have racial profiling but it will be a tough thing to carry out in practice. >> i understand justice scalia had some sharp words. he didn't agree with the majority opinion. >> it interesting, such a curret event wound up in the man. and justice scalia specifically
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referencing the president and what he said a few days ago about relaxing immigration policy with those under 30 that are here under certain circumstances circumstances are, electionly saying any deportations of them will be stopped. and the justice referenced that in the man. and added this. he said, "are the sovereign states at the mercy of the federal executive's refusal to enforce the nation's immigration laws?" he's pointing the finger at the white house saying you are not enforcing the laws, that's why arizona came one this. >> and the one provision upheld was unanimously upheld. all nine agreed to uphold it. then you fast forward and what happened a couple hours later when governor brewer claimed victory owe thingsly on that, and the president, or the dhs under the president issued an order say they will stop the arrangement they have with arizona where arizona was going out and enforcing immigration code for them. so they stopped it. what is interesting, suddenly
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the president snubs his finger a little bit at the full court because he says we aren't going to abide by thanks it is interesting because on that one point it was unanimous. and by the way one justice didn't take part because she had a part in earlier rulings. >> so 8-0. >> a nanus decision and it appears the administration was unhappy with this. i think what will happen is the get all kinds of calls people stopped for speeding tickets and those things, they want dhs to come in and verify their stat us and if they aren't here legally it will create more works. dh specials have been told do not spoken to the calls. you have to give some sort of reassurance of immigration status but you don't have to show up and pick up the people unless they are stop priorities and people we are really interested in deporting. >> but in some way the president has reacted very quickly to the supreme court saying basically i'm the president, you are the court. trying to muscle the court a
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little bit. >> they were prepared it seems because this policy happened very quickly after the ruling. >> shannon, thank you. you will be busy thursday. >> ah-ha. >> the supreme court making its decision just hours ago and already the fight has been escalated. how bad? well, for starters gov. jan brewer accusing president obama of abandoning arizona. governor brewer joins us. good evening, governor. >> good evening. >> governor, no sooner had you heard the news that there was a ruling and you her the agreement has been cut off. tell me your thoughts. >> well, i was shocked. i was outraged. i thought, you know, this is politics at its best. here we just received a unanimous vote from the highest court in the land upholding the heart of senate bill 1070 and then three hours later we got
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notification that they had rescinded our 287g privileges so law enforcement could not use the data system to verify illegal immigration, the status of people that were stopped, if you will, in the process of committing a crime. you know, just unbelievable that they would distort the law, thwart the opinion of the supreme court. the bottom line is, i guess i shouldn't be but you know, from the beginning they have downplayed the border situation that arizona faces on agilely basis in regards to security. they have certainly ignored our pleas for them to do the job. they sued arizona for trying, for me for trying to protect the citizens of arizona. and then they came out last week and reversed the amnesty
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position with what i called back door amnesty giving illegal immigrants temporary working status, and now today to rescind the 287g. i would think that the american people would think long and deep about what the federal government is doing and why aren't they abiding by the rule of law? it's just unconscionable. what they said to arizona is drop dead, arizona. drop dead and go away. we are going to ignore you. >> is arizona the only state that you know of that's had the 287g agreement stopped today? >> yes, it is. we verified that and checked and arizona is the only state that it was rescinded on. >> well, the president must be a little bit concern about your state because not long after your press conference and not long after the 287g was cut off, the department of justice set up a telephone hot line and intake
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e-mail for the public to report potential civil rights concerns related to the implementation of arizona sb1070. so apparently the department of justice, they are worried you are going to do something. >> well, it's like they are baiting, i guess, people to participate in this. i have all the confidence in the world in our law enforcement and they will be held accountable. there will be no racial discriminations, no one's civil rights will be abused. for the federal government and the department of justice to go out in this manner and to encourage, i would say bait people to call up and report people, it is just unbelievable. is this not america? is this not the united states? do i not as governor have the right to protect the people of
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arizona? it just is incomprehensible to think that this is all taken place today. it ticks me off. i think that it should tick the people of america off. >> when it says reasonable suspicion someone is here illegally, what would be a reasonable suspicion? a police officer stops somebody and what would be a reasonable suspicion the person might not be here legally to warrant asking are you here illegally? >> well, you know, law enforcement is trained in that and they have done this all the years that you have been alive and i have been alive. you know, they are trained to be aware of what suspicion is. bottom line is that they have already committed a crime when they are stopped, and then if there's reasonable suspicion i would probably think they did not have a driver's license if they were speeding, that would be reasonable suspicion, so you would do a check. you would run a check on the data system to see if they were
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here or not. same thing, in fact, if they couldn't give you identification where they were living. i would think that would be probably some type of reasonable suspicion. if they ran away, that would be reasonable suspicion. you know, law enforcement have rules. they understand that racial profiling will not be tolerated by this governor or the people of the united states. it's against the law. they are trained. >> do you intend to appeal the 287g -- the fact that it has been cancelled as it relates to arizona? >> you know, i don't know if i can appeal it. it is actually the federal government. it is their program. and it's almost become apparent that they can do whatever they darn well want. they don't want to enforce their laws, they won't let us help them enforce their laws. the bottom line is what we need is a new administration,
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somebody that will take the responsibility, uphold the rule of law and secure our borders so we can deal with all the issues pertaining to illegal immigration. and we have that opportunity in november. >> do you have one quick last message for president obama? i know you had a rather turse conversation with him on the tarmac and you waved your finger at him. do you have one quick short message for him tonight? >> i would probably say to him, mr. president, arizona is part of the united states of america. and you cannot ignore us because arizona represents probably the most -- the majority of the people of america. we want the rule of law enforcemented and it is your job to do it. >> governor, thank you. we will be watching to see what the next stage is in this. thank you, governor. >> thank you. >> now to the electrifying response to the immigration ruling from both sides.
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today protesters making their voices heard outside the supreme court. mr. jenkins was right there. >> greta, we obviously didn't get the healthcare ruling but when arizona's split decision came down, we were on the ground with our cameras. >> i'm out here to say thank you, governor brewer, for having the guts to tackle these problems. >> it's a split decision. one of the most onerous parts remains, the issue of racial profiling, the issue of identifying people based on what they look like and what language they speak. i think that's still going to continue to be bothersome, to say the least politically. >> the ability to make determinations like those made under the arizona immigration law are themselves an essential component of a state's could have rainty. it's difficult to imagine how the founding generation could have understood the constitution more. >> this is not about people coming over here to work, this
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is about keeping america secure. [chanting] >> i'm not, you know, if i'm in arizona i could be stopped and detained. my family is hispanic. they are citizens in california. they will not travel through arizona because of fear that they will get stopped and detained, even though they are wholly legitimate legal citizens. >> the part they upheld, i think it's about time and it dupely indicates the federal law and it's critical that police officers are able to check immigration status. >> i believe all defections, i have always believed 1070 was unconstitutional to begin with. leaving that part in i think is problematic. >> i think it's a step in the right direction. >> being able to ask for identification is still left in and that's primarily the thing
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the police department needs. i live on the boarder and i can tell you that we have a major problem there. they are coming in from all over. it's an easy way to get in. it's a very easy way to get in and we don't know who these people are. we don't know what their intentions are. >> up next, arizona senator john mccain is here. he's not happy. and senator john mccain goes on the record. also former secretary of state condeleezza rice is here. what does she think about illegal immigration? she will tell you about her regrets. you don't want to miss former secretary of state condeleezza rice. and this is what inspires us to create new technology. ♪ technology that connects us to everhing the world has to offer and vice versa. ♪ technology that makes lightweight stronger, safer, and faster than ever before. ♪
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>> tonight just what you expected, everyone, and i mean everyone claiming victory, republicans, democrats, even president obama and governor brewer. the supreme court wasn't unanimous either, at least not to some things. president obama is quick to comment saying in part what this decision makes unmistakenly clear is that congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform. a patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration system, it's part of the problem. and on the other side. the political fire, senator john mccain saying today's ruling appears to validate a key component of arizona's immigration law. we spoke with senator mccain a short time ago. senator, nice to see you, sir.
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>> thank you, greta. >> a big decision out of the united states supreme court today and you might imagine gov. jan brewer wasn't happy. she said the people of arizona has fought them in every turn and the threat it poses to our citizens. do you agree? >> i agree with it. the point is, too, the irony here is that the reason why arizona enacted sb1070 is because of our immense frustration over the federal government's either unable or unwilling to secure or borders. as everyone agrees, it was the most porous part of our u.s.-mexico border. and it's for reasons we won't go into. so we were frustrated, passed the law. now the supreme court says that we can't enforce our borders, and at the same time obviously the federal government wasn't. now there have been some many provements in border security. but i can tell you right now, arizona is still the place where
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coyotes bring people across. arizona is still the main place where drugs come across our border. there are guides on mountain tops in arizona guiding these drug cartels up to phoenix where drugs are then distributed throughout the country. our wildlife refugees -- sorry. our wildlife refuges are being destroyed. we have concede evidence that some of the fires have been started by illegal immigrants who were crossing our border. the damage to our desert has been horrendous and, of course, a lot of people have died in the desert because they they have bn deserted by the coyotes or they got lost or something. none of those seem to be bothering this administration, and for them to not help us secure or borders, in my view, is worse than ironic. >> in july of 2010 president obama gave a speech and, in fact, he quoted -- he mentioned you, rather. he talked about how in 2007
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there was a bipartisan effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform, and in his speech he talks about bay basically wanting to do something about immigration. what happened since then, and what happened to the 2007 deal? in 2010 it was opposed -- in 2007 it was oppose bid people on the right and on the left. it was the toughest legislative effort i have ever been involved in. we had an agreement, ted kennedy and i did, that we would vote against amendments that would cripple the bill, even if it was something we didn't believe in but would have a crippling effect. then senator obama attached himself to us. >> you mean. >> although he didn't show up a little bit. >> where? >> we would have meetings every morning right off the floor of the senate where we would discuss what was happening during the day. most the time he didn't show up. maybe he had other things to do. but the fact is that he proposed
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an amendment on the agriculture jobs bill which, as you know, is opposed by organized labor, that would have sunsetted it. in other words, ended the enforcement or the implementation of that, while the rest of the legislation would have gone through. that was one of the goals of the farmer's union -- i mean of the labor unions. so under the agreement he shouldn't even not have even proposed the amendment but he should have opposed it. ted kennedy was very upset with barack obama, and so was i, and so, by the way, was senator lindsay graham who went to the floor and spoke very strongly about this kind of action because if that amendment had passed, it would have destroyed -- >> naming then senator obama specifically in killing it in 2010. >> one of several. but he was the only one that i can recall who joined our group and then turned around and proposed an amendment that if it had pass it had would have destroyed obviously the bill. >> and, of course, the vote was ultimately 49-48 so it made a
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difference who was on board and who was not? >> well, i think he may have been on board on the final vote, but the amendment that he supported and was proposing would have destroyed the whole agreement. >> all right. >> if it had passed. >> all right. and so now has there been any effort by anybody to do a comprehensive immigration reform, by republicans, democrats or the president since -- >> when the president was running in 2008, then senator obama promised to bring up comprehensive immigration reform. not the dream act, comprehensive immigration reform as his number one priority as president. for two years, for two years the president had 60 votes in the senate and overwhelming majorities in the house. no legislative proposal came from the president of the united states on comprehensive immigration reform. so you can determine what the president's priorities were then. >> why does he -- or do you
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think that he has some particular dislike of arizona or is it he likes a good fight or truly believes in this or he thinks he has a better plan or arizona is dead wrong? what's your thought? >> my thought is that in order for the president of the united states to be re-elected he has to have very solid support amongst the hispanic community. >> so is it totally political? >> i cannot believe that political calculations are not a major part of this, otherwise he would have proposed comprehensive immigration reform back in 2009 when he was first president of the united states. and i want to emphasize again, arizona citizens were fed up and angry because in the southern part of my state there was a rahot and killed. there were people who didn't feel safe in their own homes in the southern part of my state in the tucson area. so of course the people of arizona were frustrated, and that's one of the reasons why this bill was passed because the federal government had not done
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its job, and now the federal government, irony of ironies is going to do less of its job. >> coming up, more with senator john mccain. are you ready for the next big case? everyone else is. the drama is building. we are in the final count down to the landmark ruling on the national healthcare law, and it could go either way. we and senator john mccain about the potential fallout next. and imagine this scene on your front lawn. two giant bears wrestling or fighting. you will see the rest of the bear brawl, and you don't want to miss it.
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>> more with senator john mccain. today the supreme court issued it's decision leaving one provision standing. and governor brewer said that she thought it was a victory. then while she was speaking, a short time the 287g agreements, which is a partnership between ice and arizona struck down. governor brewer is not happy with that but she saw that as a way of to sort of mass -- emasculate anything by arizona. and now they have set up a hot line for the public to report potential civil rights concerns related to the implementation of arizona sb1070. so now there's a hot line. >> can't make it up. and the fact is today there are drugs coming across the arizona-mexico boarder and guides are on mountain tops in
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arizona guiding the drug dealers all the way up to phoenix where discussion are distributed throughout the country. there are people who are being brought up by coyotes and some of them are kept in drop houses where they are mistreated in the most terrible fashion and held for ransom. there are some people who are being brought across our border who are being deserted by the coyotes and dying in the desert. now all of this argues, in my view, for increased border security rather than decreased. and how do you best do that? obviously it's through agreements with local authorities. we just negated those. >> is there anything at all to prevent our representatives. the house and the senate and the president of the united states to is the down and trial instead of going out and everybody come page because everybody spreads out, we have five or six months, is there anything to prevent? because everyone agrees, the supreme court grease it's a problem, arizona grease it's a problem, the president grease it's a problem. he gave a speech about it. what's to stop anybody from doing to right now?
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>> nothing that i know of. i am sure that harry reid will bring up the dream act, their dream act, which by the way, calls for two years of military service on the part of the dream act children. when we sign up people for four, not two. that's just one small item. and they will try to use it obviously for political advantage. i think we should sit down and talk to him, and we would be glad to talk to him about this issue. but there has to be agriculture workers programs, there has to be high-tech workers. we need to keep a lot of the high-tech workers in and students who graduate. there needs to be e-verify. in other words, a documentation that shows, it verifies that you are a citizen or here legally. that, by the way, was a recommendation of the 9/11 commission and better border enforcement. >> let me go ahead to another topic.
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thursday we expect the big day on healthcare. the three choices, it will be upheld or reversed in park, the mandate struck down or reversed totally. care to comment on that? >> i can't predict what they are going to do. but if it's one of the last two, ear the mandate or complete repeal, we republicans will be ready with proposals ranging from small things like being able to go across state lines to get the insurance policy that you want, to medical malpractice reform, to things like that, to preserving a couple of the provisions which are minor, but they made a big deal out of. if you want to keep your child that's up to age 26 on your healthcare plan, it's fine with me. it has very little impact financially because most people 26 and younger are in good health. so we would be glad to keep some of those. but overall it is a fundamental repudiation of this president, who has acted in an
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unconstitutional fashion. not the first time, in my view. but this will authenticate that. >> there is the impact of the healthcare, there is the cost of the healthcare. the implementation of the healthcare and there's also the sort of political part of it. how do you think for governor romney or for president obama, this healthcare decision, whichever way it goes, plays out in november? >> if the supreme court upholds it then i think it's a victory for the president. he believed it was constitutional and he acted in a constitutional fashion. but if parts of it are struck down, particularly the fundamentals of it, i think it has to be viewed by the american people as the president doesn't understand what his constitutional parameters are that he can operate under as president of the united states. by the way, most americans i think, according to polls, will heave a sigh of relief because most americans oppose the legislation. >> has he done what you thought he would do as president?
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just going back to 2008. >> i never thought he would do things like he did today. i never thought he would, you know, a lot of my area of about is national security. for a while he was leading from behind and now he's not leading at all. the perception around the world is that he is week and american is withdrawing. look at the latest, the optics of the meeting between him and putin. remember the centerpiece of the obama national security policy was the reset button with russia. he has encouraged our enemies and discouraged our friends. >> senator, nice to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> up next former secretary of state condeleezza rice. what is one of her biggest regrets about her time in office? you may be surprised. secretary rice is here to tell you. and in two minutes it may be one of the most bizarre lawsuits
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>> what is the real key to defending our borders? former secretary of state condeleezza rice is here in just 60 seconds. but first let's go to our new york newsroom where we have the headlines. >> troll storm debby could give florida more than two feet of rain over the next couple days. and there is flooding. a major concern there. 35,000 hows and businesses were without power this afternoon. forecasters expect debby to come ashore sometime on wednesday and move slowly northeast across the state. a nature toe meeting has been called for tomorrow as reports of yet another hostile action by syria against a turkish plane. turkey said the jet was shot down friday. the pilot is still missing. turkish officials do admit that the plane strayed briefly into
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syrian airspace. this is second time they have downed a plane. they say it will not go unpunished. now back to greta. it's a new era in egypt. for the first time in modern history the egyptians freely elect a president. but it's not without controversy. the new president is from the muslim brotherhood group. we ask condeleezza rice about this. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you, greta. >> nice to have you back in washington. >> thank you. >> big news to egypt. is this good news for us, bad news or something in between? >> well, it's news still to be determined, i would say. first of all, the candidate was apparently elected in a way that was free and fair. that's good news. secondly, the muslim brotherhood, from which he comes, is now going to have to demonstrate that they can actually govern egypt. this is a country with immense
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problems and an economy that's ground to a halt. tourism that's nonexistent. is it #* and anyone who takes the presidency of egypt has to remember that the people that were there were there because they had no hope, they had no future, they need jobs, and if this president doesn't deliver, then he, too, is going to face the rathe of the egyptian people. so perhaps, perhaps governing will have some disciplining effect on people like morsi. >> will that give him more of a motive to be more involved financially? because to the extent he can rescue his country, his economy, and there's a big controversy will america using money to buy friends but it would make him more beholden and us in a better position to sort of help with the transition? >> we need a stableel and democratic egypt and we need to start with that as in our interest. can to make certain thathing
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we are participants in that stable and democratic egypt. we have very good relationships with the military. we ought to keep them and keep them strong. we have good relationships with members of the business community and we have to keep them strong. but now we have to establish relationships with this government. we have to make clear that if they intend to continue to receive american assistance, that there are certain things that we expect. no american president can support an egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between israel and egypt. and no american president can support an egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities. so we need to make it very clear that, yes, we want to support the democratic transition, but the united states has some views about how this has to unfold and we are going to act on those views. >> you mentioned our good relationship with egypt's military. does in a mean we would have
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preferred the military candidate? >> i actually think that it might have been more destabilizing had the military candidate or a mubarak-era candidate one. then you would have allowed those in the streets and allowed the muslim brotherhood say this was all fixed from the beginning to sit at the side liens and to cause trouble and to criticize but not to have the responsibility of actually governing. we will see how this plays out. but i, for one, think that this might have ban better outcome than had there been a mubarak-era win and then the possibility of saying, well, we told you so. this was never going to be free and fair and now we, the muslim brotherhood and others have no responsibility moving forward. >> president elect morsi said he plans to keep intact the historic treaty from 1979 with israel. we think the israelis can take a deep breath or do you think it's a wait and see and this is the early days of a new presidency?
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>> these are certainly the very early days after new presidency. >> should they be nervous? >> everyone has to be a bit nervous because this is a new day, and it's a new set of conditions and egypt, which has been the center of stability at least for israel in the middle east. but i, for one, believe that when we pursued the freedom agenda under the bush administration it was on the belief that ultimately a democratic government that is beholden to its people, that is accountable to its people is going to be in the long run more stable for the egyptian people and for the region. so while everyone is going to hold their breath and this is going to be turbulent and there will probably be a lot of starts, i do think it's a time to acknowledge that the egyptian people have spoken, to acknowledge that they have a president who was democratly elected and how to help to create conditions in which a multi-eth neck, and
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multi-religious egypt can move forward. >> a big decision today from the supreme court on the arizona statute and everyone thinks of illegal immigration as a domestic issue, whether you build a fence or don't, what we do with the people in this country. but it's also foreign policy, is it not? >> it's foreign policy because obviously other countries want to know that we have consistent laws on the books about who is in and who is out, particularly it's important to mexico. but really, greta, i think it's more important because it's the essence of who we are. we are a country of immigrants. we are, in fact, saved from the sclerotic demographics of japan and europe because we are a country of immigrants. we have always been able to attract the most ambitious, risk taking people here, and that's what has kept us young and innovative. this goes to the core of who we are and i long said one of my real gets about our time in office in the bush administration is that we we shall able to get the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed in 2007 that john
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mccain, john tile, ted kennedy, george bush were all behind. so finding a way to have sensible immigration laws that in fact uphold our laws, that do defend our borders, but also speak to the narrative and the aspirations of immigrants to this country, that's a very important core issue for us and it needs to be resolve. it needs to be resolved by the president working with the congress, however, because this is too important for one branch of government to died it on its own. >> how do we get that to happen? you talked about in 2007 there was a bipartisan approach to it, and yet there's also resistance to it. and if it's such an important issue domestically, whether it's on the economy or foreign policy, how do we get to the point where there is, you know, a full speed ahead to get a comprehensive solution to this? >> well, we obviously need our leaders in washington to take it up again. i have never expected that it would be taken up as a matter in
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the election campaign because frankly that's not the time i think to take it up. it then takes on a color rags of politics that i think is kind of unfortunate. we have done it before. we had landmark civil rights legislation in '64 and '65 that many people didn't think had a chance. we had welfare reform in 1994 that was bipartisan, worked it out together. that's what we've got to do for immigration. >> but what is it that is going to finally get -- i mean, president obama is the leader now so it's on his watch. he gave a speech to the american university about two years ago talking about it. and we still, we are no farther ahead than we were in 2007 on this. in fact, we are at each other's throats about it. >> perhaps now that this has gone to the court, to the supreme court, and now that the frustration of the states, which is understandable, the frustration of the states that the federal government has not dealt with this problem, essentially i see what the supreme court said today and i've not had a chance to read
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all the ruling, but what the supreme court has said is this is really a federal responsibility. we've got to have consistent immigration laws. the states, of course, are taking this into their own hands i think because the federal government has not really responded. so perhaps now with this ruling from the courts, perhaps once the politics is behind us of this very political year, cooler heads will prevail because we are also seeing that there are real economic issues at stake with immigration. i live in a part of the world, the silicon valley, where i trained at stanford university, help to strain engineers and software people and in the most important areas of technology, and then they have to go home. some of asking is that really smart if they want to stay here? so there are immigration issues that have to be dealt with and i'm hopeful that now that the supreme court has spoken we can
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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here flash studio lights it's time for last call. there is a scandal exploited. here is jay leno. >> the chicago police are sponsoring a gun buy back program, anyone turning in a gun, no question asked gets a $100 gift certificate in return. which attorney general holder said why didn't i think of that? >> that is your last call. lights are blinking and we're closing down shop. thank you for being with us tonight. happy birthday to our stage manager who has the night off to celebrate his birthday. we think it's his 100th, maybe not 100, but close. we have another segment with former secretary of state condoleezza rice. so go to greta wire.com right now because there is an open thread.

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